determination of any putative risk is based on the potential

Bag lunches invite disease

"Sack" lunches often pose a ticking bacterial bomb, a new study indicates. And including an ice pack or two ostensibly to keep perishables at safe louis vuitton bags outlet won't necessarily eliminate the risk.

Eight researchers all but one from the University of Texas, Austin used an electronic temperature gun to measure how cool individual packed lunch items were at nine http://www.gsx1403.co.uk/men-louis-vuitton.html childcare centers. A food's temperature was judged as unacceptable if it fell between the range of 4 and 60 Celsius (39 to 140 Fahrenheit). The scientists performed their temperature checks at each facility three times, on randomly selected days, 90 minutes before they were to be eaten. Parents had packed the lunches, which were slated to be eaten by their preschoolers 235 in all.

Roughly 40 percent of lunches containing perishable foods arrived without ice packs. More than 90 percent of meals did come in thermally insulated plastic http://www.gsx1400.co.uk/ which was fortunate, since only about 12 percent of the lunches were refrigerated. The rest were left in a child's cubby until meal time. (Ironically, some of the childcare facilities did have refrigerators that either were not routinely used or were used but sometimes not for at least 2 hours after a child arrived.)

Of 618 perishable foods packed in lunch bags with a single louis vuitton belt uk pack, only 14 food items were deemed to be at an acceptable temperature, the scientists report. "Even with multiple ice packs, the majority of lunch items (greater than 90 percent) were at unsafe temperatures," the scientists report in the September Pediatrics. Of the 61 perishables bagged with multiple ice packs, only five foods were still at a germgrowthinhibiting temperature 90 minutes before lunch time.

Perhaps most disturbing, even amongst perishables stored in a refrigerator, most "were in the unsafe temperature zone, a result perhaps of the http://www.gsx1401.co.uk/women-louis-vuitton.html of the lunch sacks, the internal temperature of the refrigerator, and/or amount of time at ambient temperature before refrigeration," the scientists observe.

It's important to note that the researchers reported no children as having developed food poisoning on the day their temperature checks were made. So louis vuitton bags men uk determination of any putative risk is based on the potential for germs inhabiting infected foods to mushroom to sickening levels.

Although the Texas scientists focused this study on preschoolers because children under four develop 4.5 times as many foodborne infections as do adults 20 to 49 years old anyone can be poisoned by improperly stored foods.

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